Despair (Morris Rosenfeld Poems)
No rest--not one day in the seven for me?Not one, from the maddening yoke to be free?Not one to escape ...
Poems about manacles (21 Poems)
Shall We Be Silent? (Raphael Patkanian Poems)
SHALL we be silent, brothers?Shall we be silent still?Our foe has set against our breastsHis sword, that thirsts to kill;His ...
Emancipation (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
Fling out your banners, your honors be bringing,Raise to the ether your paeans of praise.Strike every chord and let music ...
Gulliver (Kenneth Slessor Poems)
I'LL kick your walls to bits, I'll die scratching a tunnel,If you'll give me a wall, if you'll give me ...
St Mary Of Egypt (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
Strong to suffer, strong to sin,Loving much, and much forgiven,In the desert realm a queen,Penance-crowned, to cope with Heaven,Solitude alone ...
Gilderoy (Padraic Colum Poems)
THE smith who made the manacles,With bar and bolt, and link and ring,Sang out above his hearty blows"I can't have ...
Sea-Dream (Leonardas Andriekus Poems)
Were this boundless ocean frozen,I'd run home along the ice,Forgetful even of this seagullThat keens its loneliness and mine.The journey ...
O’Connell (Denis Florence MacCarthy Poems)
August 6th , 1875.Harp of my native landThat lived anew 'neath Carolan's master hand;Harp on whose electric chords,The minstrel Moore's ...
The Revolution (George Meredith Poems)
INot yet had History's Aetna smoked the skies,And low the Gallic Giantess lay enchained,While overhead in ordered set and riseHer ...
Stonewall Jackson (Albery Allson Whitman Poems)
Defiant in the cannon's mouth, ...
The Sleeping Sentinel (Francis De Haes Janvier Poems)
'Twas in the sultry summer-time, as war's red records show, When patriot armies rose to meet a fratricidal foe;When from ...
The Marseillaise (Ernest Jones Poems)
Sons of freedom! break your slumbersThe day of glory's drawing nigh,Against us tyranny's red numbersRear their bloody banner high. ...
Coastwise (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
The ships that trade foreign, to London they bearTheir cargoes unnumbered both common and rare,Their bales and their gunny-sacks, tea-chests ...
In Memory of Harriet Beecher Stowe (George Hannibal Temple Poems)
Honor the worthy dead, Strew flowers on her bier,And to the memory of a friend, O lend a tender tear!Upon ...
A Channel Rhyme (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Start Point and Beachy HeadTell their tale of quick and dead.Forelands both and DungenessSee many a ship in distress.The Lizard ...
Elegy XVIII: Love’s Progress (John Donne Poems)
Who ever loves, if he do not propose The right true end of love, he's one that goes To sea ...
Let Us play Yesterday — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Let Us play Yesterday -- I -- the Girl at school -- You -- and Eternity -- the Untold Tale ...
Morality (Matthew Arnold Poem)
We cannot kindle when we will The fire which in the heart resides; The spirit bloweth and is still, In ...
London (William Blake Poems)
I wander thro' each charter'd street. Near where the charter'd Thames does flow A mark in every face I meet ...
Massachusetts To Virginia (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
The blast from Freedom's Northern hills, upon its Southern way, Bears greeting to Virginia from Massachusetts Bay: No word of ...
The Wreck of the Steamer Mohegan (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Good people of high and low degree, I pray ye all to list to me, And I'll relate a terrible ...